WEIGHTY BRIDES.
- Throughout the 'Empire, of- Morocco there are villages where the elder members of the* adult population follow professionally the pursuit of fattening young ladies for the matrimonial market of Barbery. - tfhe Moors, like the Turks and most other Orientals^ give a decided preference to ; " moon-faced " wives over lean ones, and are more solicitous, as to the number of pounds which their brides weigh than about the stock of accomplishments they possess. A girl is put linger the-propess of fattening when «ir^T| about iw'elve years! of age. Her ••fends are tied: behind her, and she is seated on a carpet during so many hours ' day, while her " papa " stands with a matraque, or big stick, and her mother at times pops into her mouth a ball of couteoussa', or stiff maize porridge, kneaded up with grease, and just large enough to be swallowed without the patient choking. If the urfortunate girl declines' to be crammed, 'she is compelled; so that ere i long the poor girl resigns herself to the torture, and gulps down the boluses lest she should be bpaten,
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2637, 21 June 1877, Page 2
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